I finally have time to add my favorite new purchase...I've been insanely busy so it's not that new anymore, but I've only had it for a month or so...

My old Timbuk messenger bag was starting to croak (I'd had it for 7 years) and it wasn't really big enough for grocery shopping/errand running on the bike, so I saved up all my hard-earned housesitting money and (after agonizing over color choices, options and of course the design) ordered myself a spiffy new bag from R.E. Load in Seattle. I absolutely love it, it's way more comfortable than the old bag and just generally awesome...

I've heard good things about Douglas Coupland, but have yet to read him myself. And books are anything BUT boring.

It's the second Douglas Coupland book I've read, and I really liked both of them, so consider this another good thing to hear about him.

(Though in this book, he did put himself in as a sort of supporting character and it really really really drove me nuts. There's dialouge by other characters that goes "Man, that sounds like something that would happen in a Douglas Coupland book!" and then one of the main characters goes to China and runs into Coupland and it's all just wrong and made me angry. But aside from that, good stuff!)